Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.

In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves.

For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate. Didn't help but at least they explored it.